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Russian-born entrepreneur offers $1M bounty for Putin's arrest

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76 pointsgeox17 comments

I looked up this fellows Wikipedia, which reads a bit like a marketing blurb, and came across a business I recognised - TransperantBusiness. The reason I recognised it was they were blasting ads on LinkedIn on investing into their pre-IPO company & getting X00% returns - basically read like a scam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/i27oqr/transpare...

Googling his name returns business bandwagoning on every hype - Bitcoin, Remote Working etc. I am fairly certain this is another marketing act.

I will pay you $1 if you find and return my $100 bill

Alternative articles:

- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukrai... - https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/03/russian-entrepreneu...

Seems like a good way to be mysteriously poisoned

Web Archive Link https://web.archive.org/web/20220303142658/https://thenation...

This is marketing stupidity and has no place on HN.

Embarrassing.

Edit: OP (geox) is, more likely than not, a farm/bot account. Flagging @dang

These gestures are basically useless

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

Agreed, but this isn't thoughtful. An arrest with no authority is a kidnapping, and $1M wouldn't come close to the cost for kidnapping a paranoid ex-KGB agent who has made it this long.

It's an empty gesture meant to make this guy look good.

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Didn't we already have a $1M bounty on Putin dead or alive by some other millionaire?

The people surrounding Putin are worth much more than that.

Any crowdfunding project that aims at Putins removal?

That's basically what a government does among other things isn't it?

Isn’t that what the CIA is for?

In this case, I think private initiatives are better. Genuine deniability beats plausible deniability. This is not the sort of thing you want tied back to a government. Having a Russian run this is even better, since it's internal. There's no country to retaliate against.

That's what I thought the very first day they attacked, but sadly/luckily every crowdfunding platform that I'm aware of forbids any campaign to fund illegal actions. Given enough time, however, Putin will have to deal with angry people, the military, the oligarchs, and let's not forget the Russian Mafia.

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